Sergei Evgenyevich Svyagin

Sergei Svyagin
Date of birth	17th February 1971
place of birth	Moscow , Russian SFSR
size	174 cm
Weight	79 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
until 1993	Krylya Sovetov Moscow
1993-1994	HK CSKA Moscow Russian penguins
1994-1996	Detroit Falcons
1996-1999	Quad City Mallards
1999-2000	GEC Nordhorn Crocodiles Hamburg
2000-2002	Adirondack Ice Hawks
2002-2005	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2005-2008	HK Dynamo Moscow
2008	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2008-2009	Yaroslavl locomotive
2009-2010	Vitjas Chekhov Flint Generals

Sergei Evgenjewitsch Svjagin ( Russian Сергей Евгеньевич Звягин ; born February 17, 1971 in Moscow , Russian SFSR ) is a former Russian ice hockey goalkeeper .

Career

Sergei Svyagin began his career as a hockey player with Krylya Sowetow Moscow , for which he was active in the Russian Super League from 1990 to 1993 . He then played in the following season for their league rivals HK CSKA Moscow , as well as the Russian Penguins - a selection of CSKA players who played some games against teams of the North American International Hockey League for marketing reasons . Like his then goalkeeper colleague Nikolai Chabibulin, Svyagin stayed in North America and ran from 1994 to 1996 for the Detroit Falcons in the Colonial Hockey League and from 1996 to 1999 for the Quad City Mallards from the United Hockey League . With the Mallards he won the Colonial Cup in 1996 and 1997 , and the Tarry Cup in 1997 .

In the 1999/2000 season Swjagin stood for GEC Nordhorn and the Crocodiles Hamburg from the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga between the posts, before he played again in the United Hockey League from 2000 to 2002, where he prevented goals for the Adirondack Ice Hawks. During the 2001/02 season, the goalie returned to Russia, where he was initially under contract from 2002 to 2005 for Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk , and then for another three years at HK Dynamo Moscow . With Dynamo Moscow he won the IIHF European Champions Cup in 2006 . The 2007/08 season ended Svyagin at Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod , before he was committed in the summer of 2008 by Lokomotive Yaroslavl . As a substitute for Georgi Gelaschwili , he completed five games in the main round and one playoff game in the newly founded Continental Hockey League . He spent the 2009/10 season first with the KHL team Vitjas Chekhov and finally with the Flint Generals in the IHL. Then he ended his career.

International

For the USSR Svyagin took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 1991 . For Russia he played at the 2005 and 2006 World Cups .

Achievements and Awards

• 1996 Colonial Cup win with the Quad City Mallards
• 1997 Tarry Cup win with the Quad City Mallards
• 1997 Colonial Cup win with Quad City Mallards
• 2006 IIHF European Champions Cup - win with HK Dynamo Moscow

International

• 1991 silver medal at the Junior World Championship
• 2005 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2013 Promotion with Kazakhstan to the top division at the World Championship of Division I, Group A ( as assistant coach )

Web links

• Sergei Swjagin at hockeydb.com (English)
• Sergei Svyagin at eurohockey.com
• Sergei Swjagin at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Sergei Svyagin at hockeygoalies.org